It's got to be better than the painfully unfunny No Heroics surely?

I found No Heroics funny, but it was a bit aggresive and charmless. My favourite ITV2 comedy is FM.

Dunno whether anyone's mentioned this, but Heartbeat returns on April 19th in what is being promoted as "Episode: 1 of 9". Whether all 9 episodes air together week-after-week remains to be seen.

ABC
Rebus 836,000
Vincent 533,000

Seven
News 1,400,000
Today Tonight 1,220,000
Home and Away 948,000
Better Homes and Gardens 1,395,000
Seven's AFL 756,000

Nine
News 1,081,000
Two and a Half Men (R) 801,000
Nine's Friday Night Football 758,000

Ten
Neighbours 696,000
The Biggest Loser 906,000
All New Simpsons 849,000
Medium (1) 642,000
Medium (2) 555,000

The BBC very rarely have hour longs of eastenders
only at xmas
Even thought thursday was an hour long it was just making up for the 30mins missed due to comic relief

Same here, I thinks it a great show too and should do better in the ratings but i think it would go nicely on ITV2 and to be honest MW doesn't look like the sorta show that costs loads to produce so it could be viable.

soaps are on all year round
Casualty and holby are not on all year round(ithink they have a 45 week series)
Waterloo road is shown for like 20 weeks

you could say it like this 6 episodes of emmerdale
5 episodes of corrie
then 2 for the bill(which yet again is not a soap)

Doctors is more a drama which is not shown at Easter,xmas,summer

I wonder what BBC1 will put on against it. Calculating from this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jm52f

Antiques Roadshow finishes next Sunday and the BAFTAs are on on April 26th, so that leaves 1 week to fill.

Possibly an AR repeat (thought the adverse publicity they've had for trying to pass off repeats as new episodes might put them off) or one of those one-off David Attenborough-narrated wildlife documentaries.

Then what'll be on BBC1 on Sundays after BAFTA (ooh that rhymes!)? What do we usually see on BBC1 on Sunday at this time of year? Waking The Dead?

So who's doing The Soap Awards next month? Just Schofield on his own?

Couldn't Harry Hill do it?

Yeh, ITV couldn't have done anything better with Primeval, really. It's a shame, though, as it seems to be finally hitting its stride; last night's was possibly one of the best episode so far. BGT understandably takes priority though, and has an excellent slot. As for it being 90 minutes, I think it's a good thing, as it will be showing what happened with Kelly Brook. I actually think that 90 minutes worked for X Factor's bootcamp (with 4 categories, the 60 minute show in XF4 was far too rushed), and it should work here too.

At least Primeval will avoid a total clobbering from Doctor Who, as it starts half an hour before it, a clever move from ITV.

The ITV Press Centre has also released a Press Pack for a drama called 'Boy Meets Girl': http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/Press...l/default.html

So, that's going to be starting quite soon. Wouldn't surprise me if it's on Mondays and starts on 27th April. There's 4 episodes, so it fits in nicely just before the Britain's Got Talent Live Finals week start.

The show's very different to most of ITV's drama this year, which has been mostly crime-related. It's about a guy who ends up in a girl's body and vice-versa. Not too sure how it'll do in the ratings because non-crime/thriller dramas haven't done well at all on ITV in the past year.

Casualty takes a short break in the Summer (and also gets dropped for the Eurovision Song Contest) but I don't see Holby City ever disappearing from the schedules.

See here....

http://www.britishsoapawards.tv/

which dramas do and do not get billed as soaps by the British Soap Awards. Casualty, Holby and The Bill don't, but Doctors, despite its occasional breaks, does.

Sounds good, but there's no real "big" names that jump out at me which could help ratings. I'd say around 5m would be good... if in a Monday slot it should get that, but again... it depends on slot.

Or it might go out on Sunday night alongside Heartbeat. Has a bit of a Sunday feel to it, I think. Or, as it's a comedy, perhaps it'll go out on Fridays.

Although it's a shame when ITV1 choose to run comedy against comedy on a Friday. I expect they'll put the next series of Benidorm on on Fridays as well, giving that it fared so well in the slot last time.

Hmm, it'll either do very well (5m+) or become a huge stinker (below 3m), and I don't know which way it'll go.

I can't see it airing on a Monday, as it wouldn't fit in with the crime/thriller theme, plus won't the Hell's Kitchen Final be on 27th April? If they put it on Friday it'll tank, Tuesday and Wednesday are busy with Soap Awards/Football, so it's looking like Thursday to me (unless they're stupid enough to put it on Friday).

As for Heartbeat returning, I wonder what'll air after it at 9pm. Kingdom, maybe?

You're right about the crime/thriller theme, but what crime/thriller drama does ITV currently have to slot in for 4 weeks prior to BGT week? A few of the dramas they were going to show this season have been delayed. Has the HK final date been confirmed? Because they might decide to have it on the Sunday this year.

It looks like Schofield is doing it on his own, which would work because he could carry it off, but I much prefer your idea of HH doing it


Interesting-sounds like the sort of shows that appeals to the Pushing Daisies audience to me...and look what happened to that. I could see it going on Thursday probably.

After Hell's Kitchen finishes ITV will be left with a small gap in the weeks between when BGT semis start. I would guess Fridays will have drama repeats, Tuesdays factual filler and football, Wednesdays soap awards, Taggart repeats and other one off events, Thursdays possibly Boy Meets Girl and possibly another crime drama for Monday? Is there anything short enough left now?

There's certainly still a lot of drama piling up on the shelves at ITV- a lot of which should have aired by now (Kingdom, Blue Murder etc) and ITV have also comissoned a couple of other things ready for Autumn, so there's quite a lot to still air.

Anyone got last nights Robin Hood?Primevil ratings please?

First, they need to have a full lineup.


No ratings have been reported yet. If only any of the sites that record the ratings and gather them at high prices in recession times had a "Free 30-day trial" attached to them.

I wonder if there will even be another series of All Star Mr & Mrs with Fern leaving all things ITV. I don't know why some people say this and other game shows should be on Sundays, conflicting with those saying Beat the Star is Saturday night material.

Another series of Mr and Mrs is currently being recorded. As for the Saturday/Sunday thing, I think it's because Mr and Mrs probably gets an older audience than Beat The Star.

I believe Angus Deayton might be free.

Alternatively, that could be the new lower budget format. It's hell in that kitchen because MPW has no staff and has to do everything himself.

Remember, Marco Pierre-White isn't a popular chef with the last series of Hell's Kitchen and his Great British Feast series both flopping. If they can't get any big names for this series ITV bosses should fear the worst.

Anyone know how they'll do it - will we see Martin Freeman dressed in women's clothes or Rachel Stirling? I think that if they couldn't find a good audience for 'Lost in Austin' this might struggle, as it sounds similarly quirky, but it all depends on whether it's actually funny or not.

From what I read, Martin Freeman will act as if he's the woman trapped in the man's body. Rachel Stirling will act as if she's the man trapped in the woman's body.